thinly veiled

This last clause is a thinly-veiled threat to those who might choose to ignore the decree.

这最后一项条款明显是对那些可能会无视法令之人的威慑。

That sounds like a thinly veiled attempt to criticize Chinese schools for being too old-fashioned.

京晶：这听起来像是意在露骨地批判中国学校太守旧了。

A trip to the fashion closet and the beauty department at Runway, the film's thinly veiled stand-in for Vogue magazine, transforms Andy from an ugly-duckling failure of a second assistant to the beautiful, capable confidante of the magazine's formidable editor, Miranda Priestly.

在电影中，安迪（安德莉亚的昵称）去了趟Runway公司的时装衣帽间和美容产品区，就摆脱了失败的丑小鸭形象，从一个二级助理变成了杂志社人人敬畏的米兰达•普利斯特利主编身边美丽、能干的贴身助手。

a thinly veiled threat

几乎不加掩饰的威胁

If you've seen the summer box office hit," Jurassic World, "" you know that it is a sensitive portrayal of the essence of zookeeping thinly veiled as a blockbuster action film set in a theme park of genetically engineered dinosaurs.

如果你已经看过夏季票房的热门影片《侏罗纪世界》（Jurassic World），想必知道它表面上是一部以转基因恐龙主题公园为背景的动作大片，其实却很容易看出来，它对动物驯养的本质进行了细腻描述。

She made a lot of thinly veiled accusations.

她多番指责,几乎毫不掩饰.

I replied with a thinly veiled warning.

我以一种几乎不加掩饰的警告口吻回答.

The subtext of one of her next films was thinly veiled.

这样她接下来的一部影片的潜台词就不言而喻了。

Added to that has been a raging war of words and thinly veiled threats.

另外,双方的口舌之战也愈演愈烈,有时甚至是不加掩饰的威胁.

Mr. Bush makes thinly veiled threat of reprisal against his backers in Afghanistan.

布什总统对阿富汗的拉登背后支持者发出极其模糊的威胁信息.